Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
eyes middlin."

~ s, some callko an couple Nv
pillow p'ints.
who keeps your books?"
''Haint got none"
s'How do YOU know how YOU stand?"
by lookin' round when we get
up"
You're pert leetle cretur, now
amt you? Which way is it to where l
want to go?"
Straight ahead"
"One of you or both 90 with me-;
you KANT sell nothin' mo- this even
ing -"
.'Well, dom kere eff L do, said Big
Bill.
can I'm agreeable" Little Bill re-
marked. ''Will your bread tray hold
us?"
Bread tray? What do you mean?
It's a blackboard.
''Oh, skuze me. Failin' to see its
hons tuck it fer Ell doe board"
but that don't make it bread
tray" she replied
..Yes, it does" said Little Bill, ''fur
you know bread tray amt nothin'
mo- than a dough board"
My cOnshuns aliver' tnrning to Big
| bill, GilC Culli 10 SC6GlI pcdI GcI I'LL
pearter. Wall, shet up your contrap-
shun, an les 90. The folks are ex-
pectin' me this month, an don't want
'em to wait supper"
That night, while the two partners
were sitting in their cuddy hole, Big
| Bill, getting up to stretch his long
legs, said:
Little Bill, she hits me as bein' a
| monstrOus fine woman. How does she
| hit you?"
s'Slaps me the same way, Big Bill.
When [ look at them black eyes Nv
| her'n feel like goin' out in the woods
an dancin'."
Little Bill, mebby that's what killed
her husband. Mout have danced him
self to DEATH
Didn't know but he mout have been
cut in two by one NV his razor-back
hogs, Little Bill replied. ''Spose we
90 out Sunday an shine round a little
with her."
''Pll jine YOU"
They called on her the next Sun
day, and it was such an odd thing for
two Bills to go calling that many of
the neighbOrs came and looked in
upon them. Many attentions were
bestowed upon the Widow Blake
and especially SO by a young
fellow who owned a spawned horse
and a buggy with red wheels, yet she
seemed best pleased with the two
Bills. She invited them to 90 to church
with her, which they did, and as she
walked between them, no one, even
the most observant-eyed old maid,
could have decided upon her favorite.
That night, when the cob pipes had
been lighted in the cuddy-hole, Big
Bill said:
''She's gittin better lookin all the
time"
Yes, replied the dwarf, "an' her
eyes amt losin none Nv their snap as
you 90 along. Tell you what's fact
Big Bill, I'll be hanged if don't b'reve
I'm in love with her"
''Podner," replied Big Bill, eve air
still in the same boat, fur | love her
myself. Shake"
They arose and warmly shook |
hands.
They called on the widow again the |
following Sunday, and again she |
walked between them to church, Just |
before parting that evening, the two |
Bills held her hands, changing about |
from right to left so that there might |
be no appearance of partially.
Never seed Il woman git better an |
better lookin faster than she do" said /
Big Bill, when they reached home and |
lighted their pipes. ''Puts me in min
NV young deer running toward you. /
GIFTS pulitzer as it comes near. Look /
here, Little Bill, tell you what | was /
thinkin' about | was thinkin' that ! |
would AK her to marry nae"
Blast me eff [ WANT thinkin' bout |
doing the very same caper myself"
Say, Little Bill"
Wall"
1--WE KANT both marry her"
That's fact" the dwarf replied /
after q moments reflection. What |
air we goin to do about ita''
''Fll be dinged if 1 hardly know"
said the giant. You've got moi |
rarnin' than / have, so make sum sur
gestion."
mo, hain't got mo- Farnin"
IVY, you told me that you spelled
way over in the book once"
Yes, / did," replied Little Bill, /
''but I've dun forgot all I knowed /
about it."
wall, | never did know nothin' |
about it an man that has knowed an
has dun forgot still knows mo- than
the man that never did know"
''S'pozen we leave it to her." said, |
Little Bill. .'We'ye been together too \
long to fall out even about putty /
woman an we'll jest 'bide by what she !
says.
That strikes me about right, the |
giant replied.
They called on the widow the tol- I
lowing Sunday.
s'Miz Blake" said Big Bill. ~'we've |
got something we want to say to you,
so s'pozen we don't 90 to church, fur |
what we've got to say must be said |
airter all the other folks have dun gone |
often the place
I am allus ready to hear anything
to my intrust," the widow replied. |
My husband used to say that l was
the patientest woman to lissen he
ever seed in his life and he used to tell
ME that if could only overcome my
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